KATHARINE SINCLAIR MINOR DIES AT AGE 90

STEUBENVILLE*******Katharine E. Sinclair Minor, 90, of 633 Belleview Blvd., died Thursday, July 23, 1998, at Trinity Medical Center East.

She was born July 23, 1908, in Steubenville, the daughter of the late Dohrman J. and Mary Donaldson Sinclair. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Howard Holland Minor; two sisters, Marie Grant and Wilma LeVan Baker; and two brothers, Frank Sinclair and Dohrman J. Sinclair II.

She attended the former Stanton Grade School; Mrs. Dow's School at Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.; the Misses Eastman School in Washington, D. C. and graduated from Emma Willard Prep School of Troy, New York in 1927. She attended the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University of New York.

She was chosen Ohio Mother of the Year in 1972 by the American Mothers Inc.

Mrs. Minor has been an integral part of community life during all her years in Steubenville, being active in church and civic affairs. She was appointed by the mayor to be a board representative on the Citizen's Committee. She was a trustee of the Young Women's Christian Association: past president and life member of Steubenville Women's Club; life member and board member of the Chautauqua, N.Y., Women's Club; the Civic Music Association chairman; Salvation Army; Jefferson County Soil Conservation; and the College of Wooster Woman's advisory board. In 1997, she was an honored citizen in the Steubenville bicentennial parade.

Mrs. Minor was organizer and president of "Project Seven" which raised money and planted more than 1,000 forsythia bushes along the highway and had thousands of yellow crocuses planted in block letters 5-feet high spelling out "SPRING IS HERE". She was the organizer of the group that re-established the first Federal Land Office building. She was an organizing and founding member of the group that succeded in establishing the Jefferson County Historical Association. She also was an organizer of the group that succeeded in having the Union Cemetery in Steubenville recognized as a National Landmark in 1987.

She was past member and treasurer of Clean Community System, organizer and first president of Steubenville Junior Woman's Club, past president of Steubenville Query Club, a local organization founded in 1897. She was a member of the Steubenville Woman's Club American home and garden departments and the Bird and Tree Garden Club of Chautauqua, New York. She served on the Board of Meadowcroft Village in Avella, Pa.

She is past president of the Jefferson County Health council, past member of the Ohio Valley Hospital Blossom Twig, past board member of Brother's Brother Foundation and a volunteer who vaccinated natives in Costa Rica. Mrs. Minor was a past president of McKinley Parent Teacher Association, an honorary member of Delta Kappa Gamma, past Jefferson County representative on the Board of the Ohioan Library, a life member of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, a member of the Steubenville Art Association of Parliamentarians.

She was a member and past registrar of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a Page at the DAR National Convention, and later a delegate to the DAR National Convention in Washington, Dc. For many years she has been a member of the Laura E. McGowan Circle of the National Order of Kings Daughters and Sons.

Mrs. Minor was a member of the League of Women Voters and was the Ohio representative to the FIrst National Convention of Young Republicans in Washington, D.C. and the first president of the Young Republican Club of Steubenville.

A member of the First Westminster Presbyterian Church of Steubenville, she was past board member and Clerk of Session and elder. She also was past president of the church's women's association, Fellowship chairman, member of the choir and a Sunday school teacher. She was the Steubenville Presbyterian Representative to the advisory board of The College of Wooster, and a Board member of the Chautauqua, N. Y., Presbyterian headquarters for 40 years.

She has traveled extensively across the United States, Europe and around the world and has twice been the Woman's Golf Champion of the Steubenville Country Club. Many of her needlepoint articles adorn homes. Before she was married she sold life insurance during the depression.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Robert H. (Mary Minor) Evans of Duluth, Minn., Katharine (Keekee) Minor of Rockville, Md., and Margaret S. Minor of Thibodaux, La.; and one son, Howard S. Minor of Erie, Pa.; eight grandsons; and six great-grandchildren.

Calling hours are from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday from noon until 1:15 p.m. at McClave-Chandler-Mills Funeral Homes, Inc., 611 North Fourth St. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at First Westminster Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. LeRoy Dillener. Burial will follow at Union Cemetery.
*****The Steubenville Herald Star, Friday, July 24, 1998*****